Depression in China: Cries for Help Go Unanswered

The bottom of Chen Aiming’s life fell out standing on a Fuzhou rooftop last July 24. Recalling his 28 years of misery, there was little he could think of other than how unfairly life had treated him. He was born with a lisp in a poor rural family, ostracized by his peers as a child and dumped by his girlfriend.

As he contemplated throwing himself off, a …